makeshift

Example Sentences

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When two MC-130Js, a special-operations aircraft, landed in a makeshift forward-operating base inside Iran they ran into problems when their nose wheels sank into the ground and couldn’t take off, officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

A makeshift window on the back wall opens onto what looks like a portal to outer space.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

For transgender students at a makeshift tea stall in New Delhi -- many of whom have not even come out to their families -- the implications feel overwhelming.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

A theatre is among the makeshift displacement camps in the city, with some 35 people living there, sleeping in the projector room and the auditorium.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

“These are old but Nightbeasts won’t care. They love these things. I got them when the Nightbeast rumors started to see if I could lure it into a makeshift cage I made, but...”

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega